McLeory warns of ‘godless, left-wing culture’

The godless, left-wing radicals have taken over universities and the national government and are radically transforming the country, State Board of Education member Don McLeroy warned in a speech last week to a Tea Party group in Bastrop.

SBOE Member

Don McLeroy

“Sadly, instead of teaching our children historical facts, many professors indoctrinate them in the social history of race, class, and gender. And, if they teach the Constitution, the Declaration, and the arguments of the Federalist Papers at all, they teach they are obsolete,” McLeroy complained. “But, for a free society, history is everything. Thus, it is imperative that we teach our children what it means to be an American. Our children must learn how our free society rose to greatness and how it could fall.”

McLeroy defended the board’s recent rewriting of the state’s social studies curriculum standards. McLeroy, R-Bryan, had served as chairman of the 15-member State Board of Education until the Texas Senate refused to confirm his nomination. Senate Democrats believed McLeroy was too extreme.

McLeroy lost his re-election bid in the Republican primary earlier this year to Thomas Ratliff. McLeroy’s term ends on Dec. 31.